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Old 09-07-2011, 03:39 PM   #70
Undertoad
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Personal sacrifice is pretty big. The inner-city teachers are heroes.

Most teachers are commendable. We thank them for what they do.

Soldiers sacrifice their entire lives for years, basically; it is not a "job". You don't get to go home to your loved ones at the end of the day. You make no decisions for yourself. You are told how to dress, what to eat, where to shit, where to sleep. Under a rigorous and probably unfair command structure that needs to own your ass entirely, and ship your ass to destinations unknown tomorrow, whether it be frigid Iceland or the middle of the Sahara desert.
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